The Mambo Kings play songs of love
by HIJUELOS, Oscar
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0241127939
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127933
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About This Item
Hardcover. Very Good. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1989. FIRST EDITION. Condition: Very Good Book, in Very Good Dust Jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear to the top of the spine and .5'' closed tear at the bottom front spinge hinge. 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner. 8vo, 407pp.
Synopsis
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who immigrate to the United States and settle in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990, being the first novel by an American-born Hispanic to do so. It was the basis for a 1992 motion picture, The Mambo Kings, as well as a musical in 2005.
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- Paperstreet Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HQ-AX0N-ICLU
- Title
- The Mambo Kings play songs of love
- Author
- HIJUELOS, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0241127939
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127933
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1990
- Product_type
- 1
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